Posted on 06/04/2004 12:20:56 PM PDT by veronica
PARIS - A man reportedly crying "God is great" stabbed a Jewish teenager in the thorax on Friday, seriously injuring the victim, officials said.
The young man, not identified by name, was attacked about 4 p.m. as he left a Jewish school in Epinay-sur-Seine, north of Paris in the rough Seine-Saint-Denis district, officials of the local prefecture said.
The victim was transferred to a hospital and the attacker fled the scene. Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin visited the site where the attack occurred.
Witnesses said a man shouted "God is great" then plunged a knife into him before fleeing.
Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin denounced the attack, saying he shares "the legitimate indignation of the Jews of France against this barbarous act which touches our entire national community."
Anti-Semitic attacks have been on the rise in France despite a series of measures put in place to counter them. However, physical assaults are less common than attacks on Jewish sites, from synagogues to schools, and desecration of Jewish cemeteries.
The Interior Ministry has reported 67 anti-Semitic acts in the first quarter of 2004, a 60-percent increase from the same period a year earlier.
Young Muslims have been blamed for many of the attacks which, over the past few years, have coincided with rising tension in the Middle East.
However, Muslims have also been victims of racist attacks. In March, an arson fire damaged a mosque and destroyed a Muslim prayer hall in Annecy, in southeast France.
you'e correct, of course..my cooment was how one short sentence at the end managed to both give an air of moral equivalency to the incident, as well as justifying it...
ALLAH FUBAR!!
Exactly. This is how the Frogs like to balance their stories about Jews.
Translation. "Allah Akbar"
Off topic, but related to France, some quotes from a USA Today article which can't be posted here. From Jacques Marcellin, a French Jew who spent three years hiding from the Nazis in the South of France.
“ I am alive today thanks to the Americans and the English”
about the war in Iraq? "America may be right, it may be wrong,"
abuse of prisoners at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison? "The French did the same thing in the war with Algeria."
"Americans are God. The rest are (French expletive),"
Interesting take..you guys should talk re #24...
That last line really is unbeliveable. This same crap is rearing it's ugly head here. Look at the campus protests.
I snooped in on DU the other night and decided that I was going to buy all my Jewish friends guns for Christmas.
Ya gotta find better things to do than check DU...fer instance..my septic tank is clogged...
Please FReepmail me a link to the thread that made you do that...
This is all Mel Gibson's fault.
The cult of hate rears it's ugly head yet again.
So let me see if I've got the score right, anti-Semitics 67, anti-Islams 1. So who seems to be on the offensive here?
They always say "God is great" Or "Allah is great" before they kill. If this is how they show how great their God is, hey fellas, your God ain`t that great, nor a God.
What kind of God is this, for whom blood and human sacrifice brings salvation?
More like a Jim Jones-like cult leader than a God.
And Chirac dares lecture the President on what comments will be acceptable during his visit and the Jesse Jacksons of the world dare accuse Bush of racism. Chirac and his government have defined themselves, freedom is only for the few in their eyes.
Think he really said "God is great"? Or did he say "Allah is great"? It makes a big difference, and I strongly suspect AP translated it to fit their political preference.
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